Sarah Croix
Biographic Data
| ID | 2740945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Croix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Croix |
| SIGNATURE | CROIX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3956-6728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Forgotten Towns and Cities: Exploring Urban Archaeology through Archival Data
In recent years, and in their own right, urban archaeology and archive archaeology have become important and influential subdisciplines of archaeology, continuing to break new ground in discovering the past. This text and special section of the Journal of Urban Archaeology it introduces, is situated at the intersection between these two fields, asking how archival research in archaeology and the use of legacy data can rediscover ‘lost’ urban site…
A multi-proxy geochemical and micromorphological study of the use of space and stratigraphy of a Viking-age house in Ribe, Denmark
High-definition approaches are currently revolutionizing our understanding of the archaeology of urban archives. Multi-proxy studies at a high spatial resolution offer especially an opportunity to capture their high data potential. Here we present a study of complex floor layers from an occupation phase dating to c. AD 790-830 uncovered in the Viking-age emporium Ribe, Denmark (c. AD 700-900). In order to better understand stratigraphy and the us…
Assembling the Full Cast: Ritual Performance, Gender Transgression and Iconographic Innovation in Viking-Age Ribe
VIKING-AGE ICONOGRAPHY is mostly studied through stone sculpture and carvings and through metal dress accessories, which are often poorly contextualised finds. Here we present a new approach by studying an assemblage of casting moulds for figurative dress accessories from an early 9th-century workshop context in Ribe (Jutland, Denmark). We provide digital reconstructions of the fragmented moulds, including ‘Valkyrie’ pendants showing female figur…
Ribe’s Pre-Christian Cemetery: The Burial Customs of an Early Urban Community
Objects, Contexts, and Use of Space: The ‘Biography’ of a Workshop in Eighth-Century Ribe
This article explores the theoretical and methodological challenges of reconstructing the pace of events and activities, which shaped urban archaeological contexts. It argues that the archaeological context and its stratigraphic relations should be the primary unit of inquiry, as it contains a wealth of heterogeneous data, which require multifaceted investigation. Increasingly, this material is being divided and studied by different specialists f…
Recasting a Viking warrior woman from Ribe: 3D digital image reconstruction compared
Dating earthwork fortifications: Integrating five dating methods in Viking-age Ribe, Denmark
Single Context, Metacontext, and High Definition Archaeology: Integrating New Standards of Stratigraphic Excavation and Recording
Cultures Without Borders: Approaching the cultural continuum in the Danish–Frisian coastal areas in the early Viking Age
The research history of the Viking Age has often described the Scandinavian expansion towards the rest of early medieval Europe as involving a clash between markedly distinct cultures. These oppositions appear in written accounts contemporary to the events and have been used to stress widely common ideas about the ‘civilized’ south and the ‘barbarian’ north. In this article, we argue that these ideas focused originally on religious rather than on…
Theréseau opératoireof Urbanization: Craft Collaborations and Organization in an Early Medieval Workshop in Ribe, Denmark
This paper proposes that the organization of crafts may be a key catalyst in the emergence of urban communities. This is argued through a reassessment of finds from a non-ferrous metal workshop from the eighth century excavated in Ribe, Denmark. We analyse 3D laser scans in order to classify previously unidentified mould fragments, which show that the workshop produced a range of metal parts for composite products like wooden chests, belts and ho…
The Vikings, victims of their own success? A selective view on Viking research and its dissemination
The Viking age as a time of adventures and violence never ceases to fascinate the public. Both aspects remain central to the definitions of the period which can be found in recent introductions to the topic. Those definitions, developed in Western Europe and applied to the events taking place in this region, are currently being challenged by scholars arguing for the greater significance of economic, political and social developments on a broader …
Permanency in Early Medieval Emporia: Reassessing Ribe
This article seeks to demonstrate the permanent character of at least parts of the marketplace in Ribe (Denmark) from the first decades of its existence at the beginning of the eighth century. As with other early medieval emporia in northern Europe, it has been debated whether the marketplace was a permanent or seasonal site, the conclusion generally being that it would not have become permanently occupied until the AD 780s–790s. Although other m…
Single Context, Metacontext, and High Definition Archaeology: Integrating New Standards of Stratigraphic Excavation and Recording
Permanency in Early Medieval Emporia: Reassessing Ribe
This article seeks to demonstrate the permanent character of at least parts of the marketplace in Ribe (Denmark) from the first decades of its existence at the beginning of the eighth century. As with other early medieval emporia in northern Europe, it has been debated whether the marketplace was a permanent or seasonal site, the conclusion generally being that it would not have become permanently occupied until the AD 780s–790s. Although other m…
Theréseau opératoireof Urbanization: Craft Collaborations and Organization in an Early Medieval Workshop in Ribe, Denmark
This paper proposes that the organization of crafts may be a key catalyst in the emergence of urban communities. This is argued through a reassessment of finds from a non-ferrous metal workshop from the eighth century excavated in Ribe, Denmark. We analyse 3D laser scans in order to classify previously unidentified mould fragments, which show that the workshop produced a range of metal parts for composite products like wooden chests, belts and ho…
A multi-proxy geochemical and micromorphological study of the use of space and stratigraphy of a Viking-age house in Ribe, Denmark
High-definition approaches are currently revolutionizing our understanding of the archaeology of urban archives. Multi-proxy studies at a high spatial resolution offer especially an opportunity to capture their high data potential. Here we present a study of complex floor layers from an occupation phase dating to c. AD 790-830 uncovered in the Viking-age emporium Ribe, Denmark (c. AD 700-900). In order to better understand stratigraphy and the us…
Cultures Without Borders: Approaching the cultural continuum in the Danish–Frisian coastal areas in the early Viking Age
The research history of the Viking Age has often described the Scandinavian expansion towards the rest of early medieval Europe as involving a clash between markedly distinct cultures. These oppositions appear in written accounts contemporary to the events and have been used to stress widely common ideas about the ‘civilized’ south and the ‘barbarian’ north. In this article, we argue that these ideas focused originally on religious rather than on…
Assembling the Full Cast: Ritual Performance, Gender Transgression and Iconographic Innovation in Viking-Age Ribe
VIKING-AGE ICONOGRAPHY is mostly studied through stone sculpture and carvings and through metal dress accessories, which are often poorly contextualised finds. Here we present a new approach by studying an assemblage of casting moulds for figurative dress accessories from an early 9th-century workshop context in Ribe (Jutland, Denmark). We provide digital reconstructions of the fragmented moulds, including ‘Valkyrie’ pendants showing female figur…
Permanency in Early Medieval Emporia: Reassessing Ribe
This article seeks to demonstrate the permanent character of at least parts of the marketplace in Ribe (Denmark) from the first decades of its existence at the beginning of the eighth century. As with other early medieval emporia in northern Europe, it has been debated whether the marketplace was a permanent or seasonal site, the conclusion generally being that it would not have become permanently occupied until the AD 780s–790s. Although other m…
The Vikings, victims of their own success? A selective view on Viking research and its dissemination
The Viking age as a time of adventures and violence never ceases to fascinate the public. Both aspects remain central to the definitions of the period which can be found in recent introductions to the topic. Those definitions, developed in Western Europe and applied to the events taking place in this region, are currently being challenged by scholars arguing for the greater significance of economic, political and social developments on a broader …
Dating earthwork fortifications: Integrating five dating methods in Viking-age Ribe, Denmark
Single Context, Metacontext, and High Definition Archaeology: Integrating New Standards of Stratigraphic Excavation and Recording
Cultures Without Borders: Approaching the cultural continuum in the Danish–Frisian coastal areas in the early Viking Age
The research history of the Viking Age has often described the Scandinavian expansion towards the rest of early medieval Europe as involving a clash between markedly distinct cultures. These oppositions appear in written accounts contemporary to the events and have been used to stress widely common ideas about the ‘civilized’ south and the ‘barbarian’ north. In this article, we argue that these ideas focused originally on religious rather than on…
Theréseau opératoireof Urbanization: Craft Collaborations and Organization in an Early Medieval Workshop in Ribe, Denmark
This paper proposes that the organization of crafts may be a key catalyst in the emergence of urban communities. This is argued through a reassessment of finds from a non-ferrous metal workshop from the eighth century excavated in Ribe, Denmark. We analyse 3D laser scans in order to classify previously unidentified mould fragments, which show that the workshop produced a range of metal parts for composite products like wooden chests, belts and ho…
Ribe’s Pre-Christian Cemetery: The Burial Customs of an Early Urban Community
Objects, Contexts, and Use of Space: The ‘Biography’ of a Workshop in Eighth-Century Ribe
This article explores the theoretical and methodological challenges of reconstructing the pace of events and activities, which shaped urban archaeological contexts. It argues that the archaeological context and its stratigraphic relations should be the primary unit of inquiry, as it contains a wealth of heterogeneous data, which require multifaceted investigation. Increasingly, this material is being divided and studied by different specialists f…
Recasting a Viking warrior woman from Ribe: 3D digital image reconstruction compared
Assembling the Full Cast: Ritual Performance, Gender Transgression and Iconographic Innovation in Viking-Age Ribe
VIKING-AGE ICONOGRAPHY is mostly studied through stone sculpture and carvings and through metal dress accessories, which are often poorly contextualised finds. Here we present a new approach by studying an assemblage of casting moulds for figurative dress accessories from an early 9th-century workshop context in Ribe (Jutland, Denmark). We provide digital reconstructions of the fragmented moulds, including ‘Valkyrie’ pendants showing female figur…
A multi-proxy geochemical and micromorphological study of the use of space and stratigraphy of a Viking-age house in Ribe, Denmark
High-definition approaches are currently revolutionizing our understanding of the archaeology of urban archives. Multi-proxy studies at a high spatial resolution offer especially an opportunity to capture their high data potential. Here we present a study of complex floor layers from an occupation phase dating to c. AD 790-830 uncovered in the Viking-age emporium Ribe, Denmark (c. AD 700-900). In order to better understand stratigraphy and the us…
Forgotten Towns and Cities: Exploring Urban Archaeology through Archival Data
In recent years, and in their own right, urban archaeology and archive archaeology have become important and influential subdisciplines of archaeology, continuing to break new ground in discovering the past. This text and special section of the Journal of Urban Archaeology it introduces, is situated at the intersection between these two fields, asking how archival research in archaeology and the use of legacy data can rediscover ‘lost’ urban site…
Archaeology (11 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · History (5 works) · Geology (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Viking Age (4 works) · Art (3 works)